January 8 – Mozart’s Childhood

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No.1 in E-flat, K.16
What were you doing when you were eight? At that age, Mozart was a child star who performed and composed all around Europe. Once, when his father was ill and forbid him to practice, the eight-year-old Mozart chose the next-best thing: composing! He wrote his very first symphony for horns, oboes and strings. The house in which he wrote it still sands in Westminster, London.